# Does anyone else watch Classic Arts Showcase? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133 "2018-06-15T02:43:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/1 "2018-06-15T02:43:48Z")
This is a 24-hour commercial-free station that mostly airs on PBS affiliates and public access channels. A public-access college station airs it where I live, and I really enjoy having it on as background noise. They show all kinds of videos, mostly classical music, ballet, snippets from old movies, interviews with various artists, etc. > **[Classic Arts Showcase](https://www.classicartsshowcase.org/)** > > Classic Arts Showcase It is funded by the estate of a man who made his fortune from Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/2 "2018-06-15T03:14:13Z")
If I’m up late ill watch but those bastards at KCET (the former PBS station in LA) have cut its hours. Its great background music. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/3 "2018-06-15T03:33:48Z")
This is my favorite CAS video. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v_oBX-Cz2fg/hqdefault.jpg "Comedian Harmonists - Wochenend und Sonnenschein - Happy Days are Here Again") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_oBX-Cz2fg) p.s. Right now, I can’t get it at all, probably because we had a storm and it’s gone off before under those circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/4 "2018-06-15T12:05:55Z")
Thanks for reminding me of this. Eleven years ago I broke my ankle and after surgery I spent about two weeks staying with my then-bf’s mother at her independent living facility. We watched this channel most nights and loved it. I was 59, and she was about 90, but both of us had a good background in classical music, ballet, opera, etc., and this gave us a way of spending the evening together and having plenty to talk about. I didn’t know it was an actual TV station. I thought it was some closed-circuit recording provided by the Home. I just looked it up and it is broadcast by the local community college. Just tried to pick it up on my tv OTA (I have a Roku but no cable), but no luck. It’s a wonderful channel. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/5 "2018-06-15T15:26:14Z")
I used to watch it when I had C-Band satellite television. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/6 "2018-06-15T16:33:18Z")
I used to watch it, but Dish has cut it out of its lineup. I miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/7 "2018-06-15T17:03:01Z")
I used to stream it on my Roku, until Nowhere Man’s Nowhere TV channel was removed. Before that, I watched it on MCAT (Missoula Community Access Television) when it was on late at night. I suppose I’ll try streaming it on my Odroid-XU4 using Kodi this evening. [https://kodi.wiki/view/Internet\_video\_and\_audio\_streams](https://kodi.wiki/view/Internet_video_and_audio_streams) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-classic-arts-showcase/816133/8 "2018-06-15T23:31:50Z")
The website itself also streams it. And it’s back! 🆒 A woman who used to go to a meetup I attend had wondered why that college had such big satellite dishes on the ceiling of their arts building; she knew there was a radio station out of there (they mostly play jazz) but not this TV station. She had worked for a while in the communications room of a cruise ship, so she knew a little about this kind of thing.